At the beginning of this week, my high school psychology course began its unit on dreams. I figured it would be the same as psych classes I’d heard about: learn about sleep cycles, do some interpretation, and wrap it all up in about two weeks. Turns out, my psych teacher is a huge fan of dreaming. Yesterday, she was telling the class on how you could wake up right after a dream simply by telling yourself you would the night before. Today we did some research on how the brain creates dreams. Tomorrow, we’re going to be given DJs, and she’s going to spend the whole period teaches the class WILD.
Not only that, but she mentioned LD4All as a good research site
Lucky… I am jealous. However I think I can take a home school course in psychology, I have always been interested in the human mind. To have a one on one learning course on dreaming, wow that is definitely cool, have fun with it.
Ah, I will bet your teacher is going to find this topic and l-o-l when she sees. Doubt she will reveal herself though. xD
That is awesome wyrmfell I was in chat with you when you mentioned that. How about just mentioning FILD as another way to do WILD (I don’t know if it is or not). LD4all would be the best lucid dreaming website if your whole entire class created an account. It should be an assignment to create an account on LD4all
or psych class glazed over LDing, as part of the “Altered States of Consciousness” section.
she even said “this is the most interesting section that everyone will do well on. Too bad it’s also the least important part on the AP test”
So we couldn’t spend a lot of time on dreaming, but we had to keep a short, 1 dream DJ (i did my surgery dream) and analyze it using different theories (Freud and such). We watched a video featuring ol’ Laberge.
anyway, your class seems much more interesting, and i would totally get an A on it
Update: We had the WILD lesson today. My teacher was really amazing at the guided induction into it. Every student in my class except one reported an short LD or at least HI. I’m really glad beause now I don’t sound as crazy when talking about this stuff anymore
She says for our next project, she’s going to put us in a completely lightless room and have us be completely silent, so we can see how our brains handle being deprived of our senses. I can’t wait…
Also, you shouldn’t care about sounding “silly” if its something you like to talk about. Don’t fear what others think about you, does it matter? If it does, don’t talk about it .
Good luck in your class, hopefully the clowns will skip that class to give silence to those who wish to learn. Dang, and that came from me of all people… I think I need to lye down.
Lucky, i spent the entire year of my college psychology class arguing with my teacher over the reality of lucid dreaming, she did not beleive it. sigh her loss
It wasn’t anything unique. She just used what I would assume to be a hypnosis
technique. She slowly had us imagine our body slowly become very, very heavy, and
then after a few minutes had us gradually lighten, until we lifted into the sky. She then said to imagine flying through the clouds, and how eventually we’d come across a place where we’d feel very familiar and comfortable. The flying imagery gradually shifted into HI, then into a full LD.
i hope your class has success (and you too glances at wyrmfell’s LD count
ASK HER! 
That is a good way to do it … if you don’t have any immature kids who do [mod]silly[/mod] stuff when the lights are off in the classroom.
